Say To the Sun
What is essential;
undivided,
barring stage or prop?
Unreliant on a theatre,
free from
composure or production
to justify its plot?
Singular,
particularly owned
to none other
than itself?
That which walks
along the chain,
which balks at
mind,
"prison cell!"—
at that which
cannot stop.
Contained in it's
owness,
box inside of box,
deaf from influence,
advice—
existence cop.
Essential and unchanging?
Yes, when
knowledge says
of many singulars,
"a totality undone."
What if
Essential and changing?
Box inside of box,
but these boxes hide before
us, and then they choose to stop?
there is no rhyme and reason
that says that we must
ask so rudely
'why', 'who', or 'what';
we may only say they stop.
they become what they are not,
their reach is long without us.
they aught to owe us naught.
We may say
'they aught to be like this'
(for fruitless dreaming eyes)
or
'weren't they different then'
(thoughts of bluer skies)
and
'how odd they make me feel now'
(the stranger-gaze demise)
Move on!
the meadow widens,
a great sprawl opens to
divide in,
to become
and provide your own
essential, unknowable, everchanging
box within a box.
Copyright © Local Order | Year Posted 2018
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